On Anne Carson's "A Lecture on Pronouns"

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Literary critic Elizabeth Sarah Coles reads the experimental lecture Possessive Used as Drink (Me): A Lecture on Pronouns in the Form of Fifteen Sonnets by the celebrated poet and classicist Anne Carson, with dance accompaniment from the Odalipo collective in collaboration with dancer Emma Villavecchia. The lecture will be followed by a conversation between the performers and poet and translator Jordi Doce.

What’s in a pronoun? What is the power of he, she, you and we to make or break our relationships, from the intimately precarious to the public and openly political? How to talk about this power while keeping its contracts open? This first European performance of Anne Carson’s Lecture on Pronouns features a reading by the literary critic and scholar Elizabeth Sarah Coles, accompanied by semi-improvised choreography from the Barcelona-based dance collective, Odalipo, in a new collaboration with dancer, Emma Villavecchia. The poet, Jordi Doce—whose new translation of Carson’s lecture accompanies the reading in English—will join Coles and the other performers in a conversation exploring the soft power of pronouns and the new avant-gardes in para-academic literature, performance, and dance.

This event will be held in Catalan and English.

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